The nation’s favourite soap characters should pass up alcohol and hot drinks for a plain glass of water to encourage fans to keep hydrated, according to a study.
Popular soaps like EastEnders and Coronation Street are famed for their pubs, but the prevalence of booze and soft drink consumption in the Queen Vic and the Rovers Return, as well as a host of other dramas, is “shocking” and “unacceptable”, an expert has said.
They want British TV programs to show British people, in British pubs, drinking a plain glass of water.
No, really:
Analysis of nearly 3,000 minutes of national television found little more than one in 20 soap characters’ drinks were a glass of water, while more than a third were alcoholic beverages.
They’re in fucking pubs you wazzock!
Beer, happy Produce of our Isle
Can sinewy Strength impart,
And wearied with Fatigue and ToilCan cheer each manly Heart.
Labour and Art upheld by Thee
Successfully advance,
We quaff Thy balmy Juice with GleeAnd Water leave to France.
Genius of Health, thy grateful Taste
Rivals the Cup of Jove,
And warms each English generous BreastWith Liberty and Love!
Group Selling Bottled Water Want People To Drink More Bottled Water Shock!
At least try to be subtle guys…
The best of drink for mortal man
Is water from the spring.
But who am I, that I should have
The best of everything?
Let princes revel at the pump,
At parish pond the peer.
Whisky’s good enough for me,
Or wine or even beer!
(Sign in Wilshire pub, 1970. Cider 1/7 a pint)
While I wholeheartedly agree with the pro-beer sentiment, that’s actually from a temperance pamphlet by William Hogarth that he wrote to support the Gin Acts. Literally the 1750s equivalent of what you’re lambasting.
I know it’s from Beer Street.
Blimey.
And I’m all for temperance myself: in its proper meaning, nowt wrong with a drink, it’s stoned out drunkeness which is to be abhorred.
I was actually relieved to find the NHC is just a bullshit marketing front for bottled water companies, rather than some sort of quango…
You might have known the National Hydration Council would be a load of wet blankets.
Morons?
They get PAID for saying this shit. Paid by the very people they’re saying it to. These people are BRILLIANT.
She is a “media psychologist” and is described as an ‘expert’ in that article.
The MSM abuse that term to fuck and this is a superb example. The term has been debased to the point where I see it and see “political activist or industry shill” in its place.
Ah, well in that case drink up.
I wonder who got the job of analysing of nearly 3,000 minutes of national television. And what they had done to deserve it.
I don’t drink water. Fish fuck in it.
and every glass of water contains at least a molecule from Napoleon’s sperm
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
Christ, no-one show her the poster showing all the various fictional beers from tv/film. She might explode.
http://project-nerd.com/2014/03/10/fictional-beers-matter/
I’d quite like one of these if anyone wants to get me a Christmas present 😉
“the prevalence of…soft drink consumption…is “shocking” ”
They’ve finally jumped the snark, haven’t they? Pooter himself could not have come up with a line like this.
Beyond parody.
When I see fish getting out to take a piss I’ll drink water. Until then….
Both the construction of the multi person gallows and ‘extraordinary rendition’ to ISIS held territory or North Korea for these people seem to be taking an inordinate amount of time to organize……
Van_Patten makes sense to me. But being a libertarian, the death penalty doesn’t appeal to me. The rendition proposals sound fair, though.
‘But being a libertarian, the death penalty doesn’t appeal to me.’
I don’t get the connection.
1 Timothy V 23
“Stop drinking only water; in view of your frequent ailments take a little wine to help your digestion”
@Gamecock Given that I trust the state to do very little, if anything, right, how would I trust it to have the power of life or death?